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PSD President Rui Rio on Thursday expressed his belief that the upcoming parliamentary elections will be "taco a taco" with the PS, saying he sees no reason "strictly none" to change his strategy. 19659002] Not wishing to comment on Luís Montenegro's interview with SIC Notícias, which he did not see, Rio refused to see a climate of defeatism in the party today, unlike the former Social Democrat leader said Tuesday evening. "It is precisely to turn things around, a few months ago that the PS had won the elections of 2019 and probably with an absolute majority, today the idea is completely different", a- he told reporters at the end of a meeting with the PSD-Azores leadership candidate, Pedro Nascimento Cabral, at the party's national headquarters in Lisbon.
For the PSD president, currently an absolute majority of the PS in the 2019 elections "is something almost impossible" and these "are far from being won" by the Socialists. "The PSD is making its way and when we will be there, we will definitely fight for the PSO with the PS, one will win, the other will lose," he said.
Asked if he deems it necessary to change his electoral strategy, Rio responded to seeing no "strictly no" reason for such and returned to defend the PSD center's positioning. "My belief is that my ideological space and where I am is in social democracy which is at the center of the political spectrum, a little to the left, others a little to the right," he said, considering that if
In an interview with SIC-Notícias on Tuesday night, Luís Montenegro said that "there is an idea of defeatism on the side of the PSD", for who blamed Rui Rio, challenging the leader of the Social Democrats to "shudder" and change his strategy.
"We let the Prime Minister let go – we would make a huge political mistake if we were perceived as a PS crutch," he said, again calling the PSD to make it clear that he was voting against the next state budget.
Still, the former PSD House Leader rejects the hypothesis
"It does not seem to me that there can be an extraordinary convention before the legislature, and I do not think that There should be a change of leader of the PSD, "he said, considering that such a scenario can only be put" if there is political support from the PSD to a government of the PS "
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